TextPad has received generally favorable reviews. In other editors such as Komodo, a clip library is known as ' snippets'. The Clip Library is a TextPad sidebar that allows users to store small items persistently, and then use them easily. Multi-lingual support: User interface is available in seven languages with spelling dictionaries available in ten languages.log file error messages), and then paste them to another document. Bookmarking of lines, therefore allowing users to copy specific lines (e.g.Clipboard history – Allowing TextPad to function as a multiple clipboard tool.Clip libraries – snippet management for reusable portions of text to insert into documents.Synchronized scrolling of multiple files.Support for editing multiple files, with tabbed document selection.Automatic integration with Java JDK, if JDK is already on the machine.Regex matching can be used to jump to a line number in a file given in the output from external programs (e.g.Ability to call external programs (such as compilers).Syntax highlighting (extendable to many different languages).Macro feature supports multiple regex searches (and replacements) within a macro.Macro recording feature to facilitate complex text transformations and data processing.

Regular expression based search and replace, including multiline regex.Automatic code indentation (see indent style).

By 1998 the company was pointing out that the editor was 'shareware (try before you buy)' and payment was necessary to continue to use it. As of 1996 the company was an associate member of the Association of Shareware Professionals. TextPad was initially released in 1992 as shareware, with users requested to pay a registration fee to support future development. It is currently in its eighth major version.

TextPad is a text editor for Microsoft Windows developed by Helios Software Solutions.

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